Start kit and baselines

Start-kit & baselines.

The start-kit is a set of guides in the NeuroAI repository. This page points you to them and lists the baseline scores to beat.

The rules are not on this page. Submission caps, eligibility, external data, compute, the reproducibility audit and authorship all live on the Rules & FAQ page. Read them before your first upload.

StatePreview
SubmissionsSep 16 - Nov 16, 2026
HandoffNeurIPS 2026 · Sydney

Train, evaluate locally, submit.

The guides live in the NeuroAI repository and are published in the NeuralBench documentation. They show how to 1) train a baseline, 2) evaluate it locally with the official evaluator, and 3) submit a model. Start with the overview, then open the guide for your track.

Pre-computed baselines on representative public datasets.

Numbers below are NeuralBench replications on representative public datasets, mean ± std, taken from the competition proposal's Table 1. They are the warm-up targets to beat. The official warm-up split scores arrive Sep 16, 2026.

Track Baseline model Family Params Train (GPU-h) Proposal baseline Code
T1 · EEG-to-IMG Chance reference 0 0 Top-5 2.22 ± 0.31
T1 · EEG-to-IMG EEGNet (Lawhern et al., 2018) CNN 0.04 M 2 Top-5 28.13 ± 0.14 configs/img/eegnet.yaml
T1 · EEG-to-IMG REVE (Elouahidi et al., 2025) Foundation 14 M 0.5 (probe) Top-5 84.75 ± 0.38 configs/img/reve_frozen.yaml
T2 · BCI Chance reference 0 0 Bal. Acc 24.81 ± 1.03
T2 · BCI EEGNet CNN 0.04 M 4 Bal. Acc 58.58 ± 0.34 configs/bci/eegnet.yaml
T2 · BCI REVE Foundation 14 M 1 (probe) Bal. Acc 68.04 ± 0.73 configs/bci/reve.yaml
T3 · Sleep Chance reference 0 0 W-bMAE 205.42 ± 0.01 s
T3 · Sleep EEGNet-sleep Sleep 0.04 M 4 W-bMAE 143.30 ± 0.40 s configs/sleep/eegnet.yaml
T3 · Sleep REVE-sleep Foundation 14 M 1 (probe) W-bMAE 134.89 ± 2.02 s configs/sleep/reve.yaml
T4 · EMG NeuroPose (Liu et al., 2021) Pose CNN - paper MAE 17.5 ± 1.5° tasks/emg/pose/config.yaml
All values mean ± std from NeuralBench (Banville et al., 2026), Table 1. Sleep metric is W-bMAE (weighted-binned MAE) per the proposal §1.4. See live leaderboard →